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Community Food Mentors are empowered to partner with communities to increase food knowledge, skills and strengths, to facilitate bridging with community members of all backgrounds, and to support the capacity of communities to address food security.
Who are CFMs?
A Community Food Mentor is someone who:
Increasingly, educators understand the benefits of teaching outdoors to promote student wellness, engagement and learning.
LSF has always advocated full-day learning as a tool for teaching sustainable development and inquisitive learning. So we’ve put together some great resources to help you take your first steps outdoors!
LSF is transforming the education system in Canada. Our sustainability programs inspire youth and educators to change their schools and communities.
Explore our resources and find the full webinar program here:
A free online college course from the University of California, this course examines the factors responsible for climate change, the biological and sociological consequences of such changes and the possible engineering, economic and legal solutions to avoid more extreme perturbations.
The course includes a free multi-media textbook, introductory videos, course tools, weekly themes and assignments, daily mini-lectures, and exams.
This guide presents information deemed important for understanding Earth’s climate, the impacts of climate change, and approaches to adaptation and mitigation. Principles in the guide can serve as discussion starters or launching points for scientific inquiry. The guide aims to promote greater climate science literacy by providing this educational framework of principles and concepts. The guide can also serve educators who teach climate science as a way to meet content standards in their science curricula.
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Teaching Outside aims to equip school staff to stimulate outdoor learning. The site includes lesson plans, activities that use your schoolyard as a classroom, instructional videos and information on the importance of experiential outdoor learning.
Popular narratives of Canadian history have most frequently been told from the perspective of European settlers. As a result, Indigenous experiences have often been neglected or excluded from the telling of our country’s history. This guide aims to engage students in thinking critically about our historical narratives, and help them consider how both individual and collective worldviews shape–and are shaped by–history.
The Gaia Project is a non-profit charitable organization with the mission to empower youth to take action on climate change through education. They promote free lesson plans, videos, and websites for climate and environmental education, as well as work directly in schools in New Brunswick. To find the teaching resources, go to the ‘teachers’ tab and select the appropriate grade range.
Earth Ed is a valuable tool to assist teachers and other educators in locating New Brunswick-based guest speakers, field trips, and student mentors. This search identifies the resources by a number of criteria including grade level and New Brunswick curriculum links.
A collection of resources teaching culture, history, language, and worldview of the nations making up the Wabanaki Confederacy.
The Radical Hope syllabus serves as a resource for anyone interested in environmental issues. It provides a new way of framing and thinking about how individuals or groups might formally or informally learn about our most pressing environmental issues — and how we, collectively and/or individually, might respond to them.
Resources for Rethinking connects teachers to lesson plans, books, videos, and other materials that explore the environmental, social, and economic dimensions of important issues and events unfolding in the world today. R4R resources have been reviewed by experienced classroom teachers and matched to relevant curriculum outcomes for each province and territory.
The purpose of the Energy Fact Book is to provide key information on energy markets in Canada in a format that is easy to consult. This edition is based on data and information available as of June 2018. This publication was assembled by the Energy and Economic Analysis division of the Energy Policy branch with the help of subject experts from across Natural Resources Canada (NRCan).
Changing the Conversation is a civil, open source inter-generational space where Canadians can come together to join or start a conversation around issues that matter to them and their communities. They created an interactive scenario explorer that depicts likely outcomes from different development paths, based on degrees of institutional and social change explored during the Meeting the Climate Change Challenge (MC3) project. Comprised of three scenarios—incremental, reformative, and transformative change—it illuminates the different ways our institutions, communities, and societies could develop and operate in the face of global climate change.
The database at the Indigenous Education and National Centre for Collaboration website is searchable by a wide variety of topics, education levels, Indigenous language, and region of origin.
Access many activities, lesson plans, classroom materials, professional resources, and overviews of scientific findings to teach about how climate change impacts Nunavut, and can be taught both indoors and outdoors.
The Climate Atlas of Canada combines climate science, mapping, and storytelling to bring the global issue of climate change closer to home for Canadians. It is designed to inspire local, regional, and national action that will let us move from risk to resilience. Includes information on cities, climate science, action, agriculture, health, and forests with videos, articles, and other resources.
A simple and short video explaining the carbon cycle by NASA. Understanding how the carbon cycle is changing is key to understanding Earth’s changing climate.
Click to download a collection of lesson ideas and activities to teach climate change compiled by Dr. Louise Comeau from various sources on Twitter.
An 8-module package on climate impacts on environmental justice. Please note this is based in British Columbia.